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Weather and Climate Change:  marginalized should be titled

      - Dr (Ms) Sharad Singh

Writer, Author & Social Activist Blogger - "Climate Diary Of Dr (Ms) Sharad Singh"

Change in weather and climate is a topic that we do not even consider as much as politics, cinema, fashion and TV serials. While all these things are not as basic as climate and weather. Every moment of our life is affected by climate and weather. If the weather is erratic then it has a direct impact on the agricultural yield. Our household budgets depend on the price of agricultural produce. The migration of people from villages also depends on whether there is good yield or not. Even drinking water depends on the weather. So shouldn't we keep the causes of climate change on our priority list?

 

There are many such things in our daily life which remain unseen even after looking ridiculous. Let me tell you an incident that one day I got an opportunity to visit their traffic control room on the invitation of the Smart City office. Various squares of the city were visible on the big screen. The scene was impressive. Zooming to a crossroads, the employee there enthusiastically informed me that "Look, the cow that is seen on the intersection, I can get that cow removed from there by instructing the traffic man right now. It was clear that he was telling the merits of his system but it came out of my mouth that "when this is a smart city system then stray animals should not be on the roads or squares." He felt bad after hearing me. He got annoyed. He found my words in vain. He was trying to tell me the quality, only that I should have understood, at least that is what he expected from me. Although this was not unnecessary. Stray animals cause accidents on the roads every day. Animals get hurt and humans too. But we do not consider this problem to be of primary level. Similarly, if someone is told that due to global warming, glaciers are melting and due to this the sea level is rising, then people think that what does this mean to us? Worry about those who live by the sea. In fact, we are so much entangled in our everyday life that we are forgetting the habit of thinking about the future. Whereas our future depends on our weather, our climate and our habits. 

A report of the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MOES), Government of India said that the India’s average temperature has risen by around 0.7°C during 1901–2018. This rise in temperature is largely on account of GHG-induced warming. In the recent 30-year period (1986–2015), temperatures of the warmest day and the coldest night of the year have risen by about 0.63°C and 0.4°C, respectively. By the end of the twenty-first century, these temperatures are projected to rise by approximately 4.7°C and 5.5°C, respectively, relative to the corresponding temperatures in the recent past (1976–2005 average). The overall decrease of seasonal summer monsoon rainfall during the last 6–7 decades has led to an increased propensity for droughts over India. Both the frequency and spatial extent of droughts have increased significantly during 1951–2016. In particular, areas over central India, southwest coast, southern peninsula and north-eastern India have experienced more than 2 droughts per decade, on average, during this period. The area affected by drought has also increased by 1.3% per decade over the same period.

At one time all climate change used to be natural. But since the Industrial Revolution came, as a result of which a large amount of goods started being produced by machines. Machines require energy to run. Most of the energy for this comes from fuels like coal and oil, which are called 'fossil fuels'. Carbon dioxide is emitted into the air when these fossil fuels are burned. Along with industrialization, emissions of air like carbon dioxide, methane, ozone, chlorofluorocarbons, nitrous oxide have also increased. These winds are called 'greenhouse gases'. In the past few decades, our activities have resulted in the release of vast amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. There is no doubt that in today's time humans are responsible for climate change.

The crisis of climate change is big but we have kept it on the margins. Take a small example of air pollution that we brought a flood of cars to our cities but we still haven't learned to 'carpool'. Whereas 'carpool' is the method in which employees going in the same office or in the same direction share the same car. One's car is used every day, which reduces fuel consumption and also reduces the number of vehicles on the road. In this method there is no burden on any one person. But like to show off, we believe more in showcasing our opulence by ignoring the dangers of car advancement. We have to change our habits in such a way that the weather can get a chance to improve. That is, the rate of tree plantation will have to be increased, water management will have to be improved and we will have to contribute in stopping all kinds of pollution. Overall, the issue of weather and climate change which is marginalized has to be brought up to the headlines.

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(MP Chronicle, 09.01.2021)

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